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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has intervened in the Retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS) of the inter-bank Foreign Exchange Market to the tune of 304.4 million dollars. The Bank’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr Isaac Okorafor, in a statement in Abuja on...

SpriteCoin tricks users into downloading ransomware with the lure of tapping into the latest hot cryptocurrency iStock Security researchers have discovered a new strain of ransomware that tricks users with the lure of the next hot cryptocurrency that is “sure to be a profitable coin”. According...

Opera adds Bitcoin mining protection in its mobile browsers. Opera announced on 18 January 2018 that it is adding protection against cryptocurrency mining scripts to all its mobile browsers, which according to the company, will aid in protecting hundreds of millions of smartphone browser users...

If that Bitcoin investment company’s claims seem too good to be true, maybe they are. The U.S. government regulator in charge of futures markets, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), announced lawsuits against two different companies involved in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies...

Ripple had the second largest market cap out of any cryptocurrency at the end of 2017, and it’s currently in third place (behind Ethereum and Bitcoin), according to CoinMarketCap. Each individual XRP token is worth $2.14, but there are a whopping 38.7 billion of them in circulation, indicating a...